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Football in East Africa

Observations of Football Mania in Uganda

The Start of it All: In early January 2011, this article was one of the first ever written in the Soccerwidow blog. I remember it clearly; another hot, sunny day on the verandah of our residence in Lugala, towards the end of our 2-year stay...
IP or not IP? That Is The Question...

How do I Hide or Disguise my IP Address?

Sometimes, it may be necessary to hide or disguise your IP address. Why? Perhaps you need to access blocked sites (e.g. Betfair, BBC, Facebook, etc.) that are temporarily or permanently not accessible due to your location, or maybe you need...
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Recommend Soccerwidow – Get our Value Betting Course for Free!

Soccerwidow.com is looking for support in order to increase our prominence and exposure on the Web. If you would like to assist, in return we will provide you with our popular Value Betting course …absolutely free of charge! What Exactly...
Soccerwidow's Turn to Balance the Books

Soccerwidow Match Preview Pause in Betfair German Blog

Unfortunately, this announcement is not good news for those of you who like to follow Soccerwidow’s regular match previews published in the German Betfair blog: With immediate effect, there will be a pause until further notice. Due to continued...
67 hours total failure!

Major Outage at Dreamhost Affecting Soccerwidow.com

Many apologies to all our regular Soccerwidow readers who have been seeing 500 Internal Error messages instead of the usually pretty Web site packed with useful information about football betting. The outage hit us around Monday, 9th July...
Key to Success

How Long Until My Blog Reaches 1,000 Daily Visitors?

This is a question confronting many bloggers and whilst some achieve this goal faster than others, many never do. However, it certainly depends a lot upon the topic of the blog and how much time is put into it. One observation of mine is that...
Time for a re-build...

Soccerwidow Web Site Restructuring

This blog is being re-designed! Lately, regular readers may have noticed up-to-date versions of some older articles have surfaced, many of which have been split into smaller ‘chunks’, which we hope are a little easier to digest. To those...
2011 First Half Year

The First Half Year in Figures – January to June 2011

It’s now six months since Soccerwidow.com launched online and for those interested in the figures, here is a summary of the first half year. However, please bear in mind that the blog has been virtually dormant for the last three months due...
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The Second Month in Figures – February 2011

The second month of this blog is now concluded and if anyone is thinking of starting a similar project, I am sure they would appreciate some statistical information, insights into whether it is possible to earn money from site traffic, and an...
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The First Month in Figures – January 2011

Soccerwidow’s figures for the first month of blogging do not look too bad at all. In summary, I published a total of 24 articles, each in English and German, achieving an average of nearly one bilingual post per day. However, I have to...